My purpose isn't about a potential at-large, but rather when we play this strong schedule early it definitely prepares us for down the stretch. The schedule sucks this year, but if for some reason next year our one and dones would be with the michigans and ball state that would be unfortunate that we have to play them twice instead of more quality opponents. Realistically it would be somewhere in the middle, but you never know with this conference
I was just complaining about not playing some teams twice, but I don't know how to feel about that. If these 4 MAC games replaced our 2 non-d1 games, maybe the MAC/SBC goes to only 1 game in November, and you take out Bucknell I would be all for it. But Seeing 4 more MAC games just makes me think we will lose some of that strong nonconference schedule
If you take out NIU we get one more game against one of the following: Miami, BG, OU, Toledo, Umass, or CMU
its not NIUs fault, but it would’ve been nice if they just got out when it was announced they were leaving
Figured it out from Zippy’s Instagram post. It’s the mascot for Goldfish Swim School a place in Hudson for kids swim lessons. Put him up there with the Texas Roadhouse armadillo for the best random mascot that frequents akron zips games
I think him coming out of nowhere helped because defenses don’t really guard him out there. When he made those open ones early in the year it solidified his confidence in the shot. The mental aspect is probably bigger than we expect